~flirt~ Jewelry Expo Aqua Gift Edition – not worth 1 L$?
[7:36] Jewelry Expo Visitor: hi
[7:36] Jewelry Expo Visitor: Just complaining that your so-called freebies are not free …
[8:07] Skinkie Winkler: I’m very sorry that you feel that L$1 is too high a price to pay. I could, alternatively, give you recycled freebies, or poor quality items I built in 5 minutes… The reason I give them at all is to show the quality of my work, it’s intricacy and for the purchaser to see the care and attention to detail I pay in making these gifts and all my jewellery. These gifts take me not minutes, or hours, but days to make, weeks to refine until I am perfectly happy with them.
Available ONLY at the ~flirt~ booth at Jewelry Expo http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jewelry%20Exposition/131/129/26 for 1 L$ – until Saturday, October 11.
well then call them dollabie, then noone has to cmplain
Yeah, that’s actually a fair complaint. A freebie is 0L, a dollerbie is 1L. Also stating that all true freebies are whipped off in a few minutes is BS.
*shakes her head and wonders what some people are thinking* (assuming they’re thinking at all, which in this case seems somewhat unlikely)
Those are lovely earrings, worth far more than the piddly 1L that person complained about. I hope that person was a noob that hasn’t quite grasped freebie etiquette yet. Complaining about having to pay 1L for and obviously high quality item is ridiculous. Scratch that. Complaining about ANY freebie/dollarbie is ridiculous. People can be so rude. Don’t let it bother you though. I’m sure there are way more people who appreciate your work
To be precise, the hovertext on the box says “GIFT from ~flirt~”, it did not say “freebie”. While it is debatable on a philosophical level if a gift has to be completely free, I agree with Portia that the “freebie etiquette” covers the so-called dollarbies as well, especially when it is a high quality item.
@Ziggy: there was no generalization meant that all freebies were whipped together in a minute. There are some great quality freebies out there.
@Portia: The resident’s rezdate is June 2008, and the profile holds the notice that she has left SL in August 2008 – for what it’s worth.
Woooow…. I am a lover of anything under 5L I admit it…but just to go out of your way to look up someones profile them chat up all the rudeness. I think there should be a test to take before your allowed into SL. Ty for your kindness Peter not all of us are rude and disrespectful !
(Hey I sorta know that guy Peter Stindberg!)
1L is not real money, people shouldn’t complain about having to pay 1L for something that they like enough to even consider grabbing. Anyways, I’ve debated 0L and 1L myself at my shop, so I mix it up. Setting an item for 1L after a month might buy you a hair, but that’s it
Best $1L I’ve ever spent ISL. Ever. EVER.
Thank you for your generosity. They are beautiful
Thanks for the comments
It’s really good to get feedback on this, and it will adjust my actions. As an avid freebie-hunter myself in the past I never blinked at paying L$1 (unless it was for recycled generally available freebies) so I thought nothing of putting my gifts out at L$1 – and in leaner times (like 2 weeks ago) they often made the difference between meeting my rent and not. Perhaps now things have changed, I need to rethink that.
Thank you to everyone who HAS paid L$1 for my gifts up until now – you have made a tremendous difference to me whilst getting my business set up. I really appreciate each and every one of you.
You know I already think the world of Skinkie and Peter, and ~flirt~ jewelry. There is no question that the jewelry is “worth” far more than 1L — and I do consider that a true gift! I have no problem at all spending 1L for a lovely gift, altho’ it is a nice surprise to be able to pick up things from unknown-to-me designers for 0L. For an avid freebie/gift hunter, 1Ls can start to add up!
The thing I do have issues with (generally — not with Skinkie) is paying for demos. I’d much rather pay a few extra lindens for the stuff I choose to buy than to have to pay just to try something on. It really cuts down on the things I try on — consequently, fewer purchases at that store generally. Just thought I’d throw that out there in case designers are thinking about how they want to do things themselves
I can’t believe anyone can be so crass as to complain about a dollarbie, though I have to say I have had people who have asked for the price of a demo back before. I think anyone is lucky to have such a pretty item for 1L
I fell your pain. Had to hear the same complains even when I write that is a dollarbie. Another complain I had to read recently: “I hate the color of this dollarbie, can I have something else?”.